foreman

See also: Foreman

English

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foreman

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Alternative forms

• forman (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English foremon, forman; equivalent to fore- +‎ man. Compare West Frisian foarman, Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand, Swedish förman, Icelandic formaður.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mən/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən

• Audio (US):

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Noun

foreman (plural foremen)

1. (management) The leader of a work crew.
   • 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):

     Since we’re getting too friendly, Ephraim Winslow, tell me, what’s a timber man want with being a wickie? Not enough quiet for ye up north? Sawdust itching yer nethers? Foreman found ye too high-tempered for carrying an axe?

2. (law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
3. (US, historical) A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.

Derived terms

• foremanship
• subforeman

Related terms

• forepeople
• foreperson
• forewoman

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: فورمن (fōrman)

Translations

leader of a work crew

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Apache: Western Apache: nantʼán Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: бригадир (bg) m (brigadir), майстор (bg) m (majstor) Catalan: capatàs (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 工头 (zh) (gōngtóu), 領班 / 领班 (zh) (lǐngbān) Czech: předák m Danish: formand c, værkfører c, sjakbajs c Esperanto: laborestro Estonian: töödejuhataja Faroese: formaður m Finnish: työnjohtaja (fi) French: chef (fr) m, chef d’équipe m, contremaître (fr) m Galician: maioral m, capataz m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Vorarbeiter (de) m, Polier (de) m Greek: εργοδηγός (el) m or f (ergodigós) Hebrew: מנהל עבודה m Hungarian: művezető (hu) Ingrian: päämees, päänikka Irish: maor m Italian: (at a construction site) caposquadra, capoccia m Japanese: 工場長 (ja) Khmer: មេការ (mee kaa) Macedonian: палир m (palir) Norwegian: Bokmål: formann (no) m, arbeidsformann m Nynorsk: formann m, arbeidsformann m Persian: سرکارگر (fa) (sarkârgar) Polish: majster (pl) m, kierownik budowy m Portuguese: capataz (pt) Romanian: maistru (ro) m Russian: ма́стер (ru) m (máster), бригади́р (ru) m (brigadír), прора́б (ru) m (proráb) (at a consruction site), штейгер (ru) m (štejger) (at a mine) Scottish Gaelic: maor m, maor-obrach m Slovak: predák m Spanish: capataz (es) m, sobrestante (es) m or f Swedish: förman (sv) c, lagbas c Turkish: ustabaşı (tr) sg

member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf

Danish: juryformand c Finnish: puheenjohtaja (fi) German: Sprecher der Geschworenen m, Sprecherin der Geschworenen f Japanese: 陪審長 Manx: ard-ghooinney bingagh m Norwegian: Bokmål: juryformann m Nynorsk: juryformann m Persian: سخنگو (fa) (soxangu) Spanish: presidente del jurado m or f, presidenta del jurado f Swedish: ordförande (sv) c, juryordförande (sv) c

Anagrams

• foramen, name for